#Sick Leave

[reasonsforhope]

"Illinois will become one of three states to require employers to offer paid time off for any reason after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law on Monday that will take effect next year.

Starting Jan. 1, 2024, Illinois employers must offer workers paid time off based on hours worked, with no need to explain the reason for their absence as long as they provide notice in accordance with reasonable employer standards.

Just Maine and Nevada mandate earned paid time time off and allot employees the freedom to decide how to use it, but Illinois’ law is further reaching, unencumbered by limits based on business size. Similarly structured regulations that require employers to offer paid sick leave exist in 14 states and Washington, D.C., but workers can only use that for health-related reasons.

Illinois employees will accrue one hour of paid leave for every 40 hours worked up to 40 hours total, although the employer may offer more. Employees can start using the time once they have worked for 90 days. Seasonal workers will be exempt, as will federal employees or college students who work non-full-time, temporary jobs for their university.

Pritzker signed the bill Monday in downtown Chicago, saying: “Too many people can't afford to miss even a day's pay ... together we continue to build a state that truly serves as a beacon for families, and businesses, and good paying jobs.”

Proponents say paid leave is key to making sure workers, especially low-income workers who are more vulnerable, are able to take time off when needed without fear of reprisal from an employer.

Bill sponsor Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth, a Peoria Democrat, said the bill is the product of years of negotiations with businesses and labor groups.

“Everyone deserves the ability to take time off,” she said in a statement. “Whether it’s to deal with the illness of a family member, or take a step back for your mental health, enshrining paid leave rights is a step forward for our state."

“This is about bringing dignity to all workers," she said at the signing."

-via ABC News, 3/13/23

#illinois #jb pritzker #workers rights #labor rights #employment #paid leave #pto #sick leave #burnout #family leave #good news #hope

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

#class war #class warfare #classism #capitalism #sick leave #paid sick leave #sick days #paid sick days #short staffing #kafka #metamorphosis

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Stephen Millies

Every worker has the right to withhold their labor. Concerted action and collective bargaining by workers are supposed to be protected by law. That hasn’t stopped President Biden from demanding on Nov. 28 that Congress stop over 100,000 railroad workers from striking. Biden insisted that Congress enforce a tentative deal “without any modifications or delay.”

#railstrike #railroad workers #union busting #Joe Biden #Congress #big business #bnsf #capitalism #class struggle #solidarity #union #workers #labor #sick leave #strike #Struggle La Lucha

[convertgrapeling]

I don't want to be dismissive of people's fears, but Sunak will not be in power long enough for any reforms of sick notes or employment law to happen under the Tories. The consultation doesn't close until July. There's the summer recess in parliament, then everyone's attention will move to the general election which has to take place in December if not earlier. Sunak is saying all this stuff now to get more donations in from business before the election campaign.

Instead there will probably be some eventual reform under Starmer which will probably achieve the same effect, but won't generate the same outrage. That's the next few years of British politics by the way: the continuation of Tory policy, with no real opposition or scrutiny because the media will be happy to have a "centrist" in power doing these things.

#uk politics #sick leave #tory scum #red tories

[randomagnes0210]

#when you have too much free time #sick leave #picsart #i should probably delete this later #which one? #aidan turner #❤️❤️❤️

[disasterdrow]

me when I'm sick with the flu and miserable and too tired to do anything but too achy to sleep: 😭😷🤕🤢😩😓

me when at least I don't have to work though: 🥰😍🤩😘😆🥰🥰

me when I don't get paid in 2 weeks because I didn't work: 😭😭🤡🤡😔😔

#sick leave #work #antiwork #it's a good thing I only pay rent to my parents bc they understand if I'm a week late

[wideeyedlittlechild]

When you're sick and your doctor says you are sick. So you call your workplace to tell them that you're not coming in, because you're sick. But you still somehow feel like you're betraying someone.

#life #sickness #sick #sick leave

[lost-carcosa]

Doctors are to be told to sign fewer people off work with sick notes and instead help them to remain in employment under plans being considered for next month’s Budget.

The Treasury and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are examining how to reverse a marked rise in the number of people off work with long-term sickness in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Telegraph can reveal that one idea under consideration is a new approach to how GPs decide whether people are too sick to work.

Doctors would be encouraged to focus on recommending ways people with long-term illnesses can continue to work with support rather than using sick notes to authorise them to drop out of the labour market entirely.

A government source said: “The mental health benefits of work are well established. We want to do all we can to encourage as many people as possible to stay in work with the relevant support in place to help them do so, including signposting them to that support at the earliest possible opportunity.”

Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor, will put getting people off out-of-work benefits and into employment at the heart of his Budget on March 15, arguing that it will help to deliver economic growth.

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(Sorry about the Torygraph link, it’s pretty much the only place I could find that was reporting the story)

Sign the petition here:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/don-t-force-sick-people-back-to-work

#UK politics #sick leave #sick notes #fuck the tories

[unreliablesnake]

I told my boss yesterday that I feel sick and might work from home today. She was like, "okay, but our intern is in school tomorrow, can't you come in for the morning?" I was an idiot and said yes, leaving my laptop on my desk. Yesterday night I felt worse and sent a message to my boss that I'll be on a sick leave today. (I didn't want to tell her that she didn't really leave me a choice.) And now she called me, telling me that she will send me my laptop so I can work. I already talked to my GP and they did the paperwork about the sick leave...

What the fuck is this anyway? I can't get sick on the days our intern is in school? So yeah, apparently I can be on a sick leave or have a day off when she's there on Monday and Friday. Ridiculous. I bet she would send my laptop to the hospital too if I ended up there one day.

#work #toxic workplace #sick leave #rant

[laulappa]

#im sick #32 #cough #soul coughing #2023 #sick leave

[thoughtportal]

#toot #toots #mastodon #doctor's note #sick note #paid sick leave #sick leave

[pareidoliaonthemove]

My workplace is currently exploring the fascinating space between "you must have a doctors certificate to have a day off sick" and "any day you have diahorrea and can attend a doctors surgery, you are not sick enough to get a doctors certificate".

#real life #work #sick leave

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

What's wrong with this picture?

#class war #class warfare #classism #pto days #sick leave #president & CEO

[gwydionmisha]

#Bernie Sanders #Sick Leave #Railroads #Strike #News

[grandmatapati]

Sick Leave For A Productive Workplace

FFS, major employers, give your workers a week of sick leave. Don't you understand how illness gets passed through your workplace and affects performance?

[Compassion alone should be sufficient reason but apparently not.]

#railroad #sick leave #strike

[dragnew]

#Sickos #Ha Ha Ha Yes #Sick Leave